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World Cup countdown

The clock's ticking to the start of the 2014 World Cup and it's now just less than 16 weeks to kick-off. It might sound like a long time but it really isn't. With that in mind, Sky Sports goes around the globe to get the best news, views and opinion on the road to Rio...

Last Updated: 20/02/14 5:23pm

Travel Tips

We have heard about the sky-high hotel prices, the public protests, unbearable humidity and long distances between host cities that fans traveling to Brazil for the World Cup will have to endure.

Yet all this scaremongering has not put off a projected 600,000 of the world's most fervent football supporters making the supposed arduous trip to South America in the summer to witness the spectacle.

England are always well followed wherever they go and so we spoke to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to get some travel advice for Brazil.

Chatting to Carlos

As part of a mini-series released over the next few weeks, Brazil legend Roberto Carlos kicks-off six talks with Guillem Balague by discussing his life growing up in the world's most football-obsessed nation and that goal against France at Le Tournoi in 1997. Did he mean it?